NCAA to Stream All Games of 2011 Women's Water Polo Championship at the University of Michigan

May 13, 2011

ANN ARBOR, Mich.
-- The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
will stream all the games from the organization's 2011 Women's
Water Polo Championship live from the University of Michgian's
Canahm Natatorium on May 13-15.

The video can be accessed by going
to the NCAA Women's Water Polo page at NCAA.com

The 2011 National Collegiate
Women’s Water Polo Championship will be an eight-team,
single-elimination tournament with a losers’ bracket to
determine places three through eight.

Automatic qualifiers were awarded
to the Big West Conference (University of California-Irvine),
Collegiate Water Polo Association (Indiana Universtiy), Mountain
Pacific Sports Federation (University of California) and the
Western Water Polo Association (University of California-San
Diego). In addition, the conference representatives from the
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletics Conference
(University of Redlands) and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
(Iona College) conducted a play-in game to determine the last
automatic berth into the bracket with Iona taking the contest 13-7
to advance to Michigan.

The following institutions received
at-large bids to the championship field: University of
California-Los Angeles, University of Southern California and
Stanford University.

Action commences on Friday, May 13
when No. 2 seed California (24-4) faces No. 7 seed UC-San Diego
(17-18) in the first game of the championship at 3 p.m. The next
game will feature No. 3 seed UCLA (24-6) and No. 6 seed Indiana
(25-11) at 4:30 p.m. No. 1 seed Stanford (25-1) will face Iona in
the third game of the day at 6 p.m. The final contest of the night
will pit No. 5 seed UC-Irvine (21-8) against No. 4 seed USC (18-6)
at 7:30 p.m.